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Min Jin Lee's sprawling family epic spans decades and two clashing cultures — Korea and Japan. It's honest, unadorned writing that acknowledges horror but ultimately carries a message of hope.

Barack Obama supporters and opponents had been doing it for a while. Now Wi-Fi owners are expressing their views about the new president through their network names, such as "Trump Won! HipHipHooray."

Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Paul Salopek about his years-long walk around the world. In this installment Salopek discusses his travels through Central Asia.

Also: President Obama holds a bipartisan meeting on trade; a vigil is held for a Columbus, Ohio teen killed by police; and Washington state will test for pesticides in marijuana.

Does the fall TV season even matter anymore, in this age of #PeakTV? September is still the beginning of the season for broadcast networks — which still draw the most viewers and the big bucks.

Sometimes, the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice. Even if it takes time, as was the case in South Carolina involving a white police officer and an unarmed black man.

In Massachusetts, a bakery called Stone & Skillet is reinventing the English muffin as something that goes beyond morning toast.

Noah is the most popular name for boys while Emma is the top name for girls. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Laura Wattenberg, founder of Babynamewizard.com.

Lynch has assembled a rambling, surreal story that vaults from a spiritual limbo to places all over the country. But as any Twin Peaks fan can tell you, the story really isn't the point.

Visit World Cafe on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to stream all the performances from the 2017 NON-COMMvention, featuring some of public radio's favorite artists.

After victory celebrations in central Seoul, South Korea's new president gets down to work. He promises new jobs, talks with Pyongyang, and a rethink of the historic alliance with the U.S.

Updated 5:38 p.m.Police say they have no suspects in a fatal shooting Tuesday night in southeast Charlotte. CMPD officers were called to east Independence…

The country legend behind "I Believe In You" and , whose career spanned five decades, died at home in Alabama after a short illness.

Jenny Lewis' bold confrontation of anger and her ability to mourn in such a raw way on the band's breakthrough album made her stand out in a sea of sad dudes; it made her an emo pioneer.

Also: President Obama will welcome Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to the White House; two trains derail in Wisconsin over the weekend; and actor Gunnar Hansen of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" dies.

Opposition supporters believe they have won the country's freest election in more than two decades. But the military still holds 25 percent of parliamentary seats.

Also: Despite a ban, Myanmar opposition leader Suu Kyi wants to govern if her party wins elections; the White House Tribal Nations conference opens; and there are nominees for the Toy Hall of Fame.

In eastern Arizona, there's a tiny, 1900 watt radio station that's marking its first year on the air. KYAY is licensed to and owned by the San Carlos Apache Tribe. For many of the isolated reservation's 13,000 or so residents, it's the outlet for community information, news and a lot of entertainment.

On certain nights, as helicopters settle on the sandy ground in Afghanistan, the air mysteriously bursts into loops of light that trace the path of the helicopter blades; no one's sure what causes this; no one knows what to call these dazzling light displays — but a war photographer has given them a name — and thereby hangs a tale.

The emotional meetings by family members separated by six decades of mutual suspicion between the two countries were suspended in 2010.